Sergei Eisenstein, Grigory Aleksandrov

The Old and the New

Name: The Old and the New
Uploaded: 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z
Duration: 1 h 31 min 18 s
Description: In this silent drama about the power of the collective over the individual, Martha inherits a cow and a piece of land and turns to her fellow peasants to get her farm off the ground.

19291 hr 31 min

Focusing on the trials and determination of one woman (Marfa Lapkina) rather than a large group of people, Sergei Eisenstein and Grigori Aleksandrov switch their social-realist montage to the plight of the individual’s power to effect change in Soviet Russia. (Presented without score.)

Starring Marfa Lapkina